Abigail Nussbaum
Abigail Nussbaum (born January 10, 1981, Petah Tikva, Israel), aged 45, is an Israeli SF fandom blogger and critic. Nussbaum's honours include Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer.
Abigail Nussbaum’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Metal Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Abigail
Abigail Nussbaum’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Abigail in the U.S.?
#41
US rank in 2025
~413,935
Americans share it since 1880
2003
its peak year
The SSA recorded 1,816 American girls and 7 boys named Abigail in 1981: 156th among girls and 4,964th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Abigail’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
9
Soul Urge · meaning
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on A (1) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Abigail’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1980, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Abigail apart
The Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer came in 2017, when Abigail Nussbaum was 36.
Jared Kushner shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer (2017)
- Citizenship
- Israel
- Languages
- English and Hebrew
- Wikipedia editions
- 1
What the chart says
Abigail, according to the stars
Core essence
Abigail is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Abigail is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Abigail is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Abigail needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Abigail wants to be loved
Abigail wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Abigail and watch them fall for you again.
How Abigail creates
How Abigail makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Abigail creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Abigail is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Abigail is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Abigail goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Abigail's birth date. Working below.
Where Abigail sits
Six lines
Abigail’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Abigail Nussbaum
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Petah Tikva on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Petah Tikva that night
Computed for 32.08°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Petah Tikva was Menkib, in Perseus, 80.4° up.
Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Petah Tikva sits at 32.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −57.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 22% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 51° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Petah Tikva, Occupied Enemy Territory Administration
- Lives in
- Kiryat Ono
Wikidata records Kiryat Ono as Abigail Nussbaum's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Abigail Nussbaum: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Abigail's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Abigail Nussbaum's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 10, 1981, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyWit is the tool.
Abigail Nussbaum was born on January 10, 1981, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Abigail Nussbaum's birth date, January 10, 1981, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Abigail’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Abigail Nussbaum's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Abigail Nussbaum combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
Abigail’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 17° Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn0.3° to 0.4° orb
Abigail’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.9° orb
Abigail’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarstrineSaturn1.1° to 1.9° orb
Abigail’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableMercurysquarePluto1.2° to 2.8° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter1.5° to 2.2° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus1.8° to 3.4° orb
stableSunsquarePluto3.7° to 4.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.9° to 6.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.8° to 6.5° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 2.6° to 15.4° depending on birth time
possibleVenussextilePlutoorb from 4.0° to 5.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 5.3° to 19.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Abigail’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 13°29′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 20°43′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 11°04′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 22°24′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 1°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Sun 0.6°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.0°
- Eros square Saturn 1.3°
- Hygiea trine Sun 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.4°
Abigail’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Abigail’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 1.3°
Born the same day as Abigail
Jared Kushner was born on January 10, 1981 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Petah Tikva, at 32.1°N, nothing below −57.9° declination ever rises, which keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Abigail
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More charts like Abigail’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
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- Jeremy McNicholsAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Dallas GoedertAmerican football player (born 1995)
Born in Monkey years
- Siena AgudongAmerican actress
- Marsai MartinAmerican actress
- Jack ChampionAmerican actor (born 2004)
Also born on January 10
- Robert Wilson1936
- Jemaine Clement1974
- Faith Kipyegon1994
- Reneé Rapp2000
- Rauw Alejandro1993
- Chris Van Hollen1959
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Tremon SmithAmerican football player
- George OdumAmerican football player (born 1993)
- Foster MoreauAmerican football player (born 1997)
Other Capricorn Monkey charts
- Eliza DushkuAmerican actress
- Ree DrummondAmerican chef
- Heather DubrowAmerican actress and television personality
- Dave GrohlAmerican rock musician
Other Steadfast Diplomats
- Ellen GoodmanAmerican journalist and writer
- F. Lauriston BullardAmerican journalist
- Franz WrightAmerican poet
- Josh FriedmanAmerican screenwriter
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Zach TomAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Breece HallAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Landon DickersonAmerican football player (born 1998)
From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Abigail’s cards
Computed from January 10, 1981. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Abigail’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q36329598 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Henry Söderlund, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Abigail Nussbaum at wrongquestions.blogspot.com.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Abigail Nussbaum.
Quick answers about Abigail Nussbaum’s chart
- How old is Abigail Nussbaum?
- Abigail Nussbaum is 45 years old, born January 10, 1981 in Petah Tikva, Israel.
- What zodiac sign is Abigail Nussbaum?
- Abigail Nussbaum is a Capricorn: born January 10, 1981, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Abigail Nussbaum's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 10, 1981 birth.
- What is Abigail Nussbaum's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Abigail Nussbaum's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Abigail Nussbaum's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Abigail Nussbaum's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
